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Document: lastElementChild property

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The Document.lastElementChild read-only property returns the document’s last child Element, or null if there are no child elements.

For HTML documents, this is usually the only child, the root <html> element.

See lastElementChild for the last child element of specific elements within a document.

Value

The root <html> element.

Examples

document.lastElementChild;
// returns the root <html> element, the only child of the document

Specifications

SpecificationsStandards references are available on the canonical MDN page.

Browser compatibility

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